Outsiders Introduction
Submitted by a.holiday on August 29, 2008
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The Outsiders was written by a teenager about teenagers. It is told in a first-person narration style, with the narrator being a 14-year-old boy. This story deals with issues that are very close to the hearts of teens, whether in the 1960s when this book was written or today.
Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator of this story, and it is through his eyes that the events unfold. Ponyboy takes the reader through a two-week period that will shape the rest of his life. No adults figure prominently in this novel; Pony and his two brothers are living on their own because their parents were recently killed in an automobile accident. But this story—which was written by a teen and focuses only on teens—touches every adult who reads it because the emotions and struggles the characters face are universal.
This novel is set in the 1960s in Oklahoma. The time...